Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-01
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How the Lovely Daughter Of South Caro-.
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Married q Soldier.
Philadelphia Pressl

Philadelphia Press)
Across The level tongue Of land from
which the battle-scarred, earthquake
shaken city OF Charleston looks east.
ward stretch the grass-covered mounds
which are ali that is left OF the mighty
iortifcations that Lee and Beauregard
built and armed nearly quarter OF a
century ago. Approaching the bank
tapped by the lazy wavelets OF the Ash
ley, these traces OF the defensive works
Of that era run northSard Of q peace
ful battle-ground in which the droop-
ing branches OF the magnolia and
palmetto trees sweep the tops OF
tho stones that record the names Of
men and women who have found rest
beneath that sod in the generations
that have passed since the stalwart and
splendid Hugnenot pilgrims who had
escaped Carriere's massacre established
the city and the State. A perpetual
peace dwells upon the spot the fra
GRANGE of roses aud maQnolias per-
fumes the atmosphere the remnspts
Of the forts have been smoothed by the
iDdomitable hand Of time into fitting
semblance with the scene it is dit
kcult even TO find upon the vete-
rams OF the arboreal growth the
scars Of the shot and shell that
once whistled and screamed from
the great guns Of Dahlgren's monitors
and Gilmore's batteries over this lovely
Gods Acre of the southern land, and
between the LEAKAGE OF the sturdy trees
the visitor catches glimpsss OF famous
old st. Michael's spire and all the
broad and beautiful vista OF river, city,
and sea that extends to the horizon OF
tho Atlantic. ID is the ancient and
venerable cemetery of Christ-church
parish, aroupi which Beauregard drew
his military lines OF decentralization,
and so brought the rude and noisy bus
tie OF war into intrusion upon the ever
lasting sleep of South Carolinians who
had preached notification ana talk "a
e'a'es rGhts Es5e lustrums before
speetA Deesme powder and shot and
bloodshed.
The westering sun bathPs in golden
glory one OF the most prominent monu-
msnts in this city of the dead-a slender
and graceful marble shaft crVwning a
turfed hillock that from time to time
blooms with the profigate beauty Of
flowers that bespeak assiduous and in
defatigable care for the memory of the
tenant of the tomb. On the face that
is turned toward the sunset is the in
scription:
NALGALrr PIcSENs De ROCHELLE.
DEC. 9TH. 1864.
When South Carolina seeded
the Union end lit the fires Of -, ' rom
her Governor was Francis 90 ,l ""'
member Of the slav' -: loNoIS'
tocrscy that boosted - I III iIon5
and, Ike the feu' srs t,S OFF, Of which +
S S@' a sluulacrum, occasionally
o os',IoP'" aoble and admirable types
q, ' and women. To that rank
ernor Pickens was entitled, and OF
III the fair and lOvable women to whom
his distinguished family had given oirth
no one was sweeter or more beautiful
than the daughter who, when Major An
derson lowered the flag on Sumter,
was budding into charming woman
hood. 1t has been truly said that the
war was prolonged by the courage and
persistency with which the women OF
the South imbued the men. No histo-
~ has ever adequately told the sacr1-
fees that they made, the Sulterings that
they patiently endured, to cheer and
prompt the soldiers and sailors who
served under the banner of the lost
cause. Nowhere between the Potomac
and the Mexican Gulf was their spirit
OF answering devotion more manifest
and active than in the capital OF the
keystone State of the Southern Con-
fedt racy and there was no patriotic
project mooted in which women could
share to which Margaret Pickens did
not contribute.
TYPE OF SOUTHERN BEAUTY.
Turning back to the Charleston news
papers of the war epoch, her name is
found hundred times upon their worn
and fading pages. In 1862 the women
of the city turned their iewelry, their
diamonds-gens that had come down
TO them from their Huguenot and Eng
lish ancestoIs-their silyer-plate, and
innumersble articles OF bric-d-brGc into
the money that paid for the ironclad
ship-of-war Palmetto State that on
January 81, 1868, sunk the United
States gunboat Mercedita in a
battle in Charleston harbor. In the
enterprise of raising the construction
fund Margaret Pickens was proficient
and nntiring. She stripped herself Of
her iewelry, and she figured in a lead
ing capacity at the fair or bazaar at
which the women sold their treasures
that "The Ladies' Gunboat might be
built. A bright young Englishman,
who had come into Charleston as an
officer Of one OF the blockade runners,
saw her on that occasion and worship
ed her through the medium OF letter
10 friend in Liverpool that found its
way into the columns of the Liverpool
Mercury. He wrote:
al have seen to night the loveliest
girl that nv eyes ever gazed upon, and
The sight Of her was worth the guinea
of a sailors wages that / paid for the
queer little flower / received from her
hand and that is lying before me as |
write. The picture OF her face, which
hold in memory, would make me Will
ling at any time to take the chances OF
being caught or shot to pieces by the
Iuukttb III uotr1bS ti4N bipShotS' NHS
is rather tall, clean built as Shanghai
clipper, her eyes and hair are nut
brown, and her voice as soft as that of
any of the Minorca girls.
For nineteen months, beginning with
June, 1863. Charleston suffered the
most prolonged and tremendous bonn
bardmept ever inflicted upon an Ame-
rican city. All the lower part of the
town was swept by day and night 10y
Gilmore's 300.pounder shells and for
saken by its population. The roar OF
the artillery fire upon Fort Sumter aud
the other defensive works was wellnigh
incessant, while the battles upon Morris
island for the possession of Fort Wag-
ner and Battery Gregg, the frequent
skiImishes between the accommodating
boat parties, the engagements Of the
fleets, and such torpedo expeditions IS
that which blew up the Federal gun
boat Housatonic left few uneventful
days in the history OF the long and
bloody siege. The hospitals OF the city
overfowed with wounded men, the